But that had been before the interminable waste of the Grass War and the long train of young women and men in front of my desk with the trinkets they thought would give them a chance of not becoming food for crows in a field somewhere.

Naim Kabir is a novice who was lucky enough to get noticed: by Clarkesworld, The Journal of Unlikely Stories, and of course, Beneath Ceaseless Skies; “On the Origin of Song,” his first BCS story and first published text story, was named to the 2013 Locus Recommended Reading List and reprinted in Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014, ed. Rich Horton. If you’re feeling generous with your time, you can follow him on Facebook, on Twitter, or at his site at KabirCreates.com.